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Oh, some evil spirit, oh, some evil this way comes
They told me how they fear it
Now they're placing it on their tongues
For to see it with my own eyes
For to see it with my own eyes
No food or water for the better part of ten months
Quietly he sat between the folds of a tree trunk
For to see it with my own eyes
For to see it with my own eyes
All the men of faith and men of science had their questions
Could it ever be on earth as it is in heaven?
For to see it with my own eyes For to see it with my own eyes
They told me how they fear it
Now they're placing it on their tongues
For to see it with my own eyes
For to see it with my own eyes
No food or water for the better part of ten months
Quietly he sat between the folds of a tree trunk
For to see it with my own eyes
For to see it with my own eyes
All the men of faith and men of science had their questions
Could it ever be on earth as it is in heaven?
For to see it with my own eyes For to see it with my own eyes
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"All the men of faith and men of science had their questions
Could it ever be on earth as it is in heaven?" -- When tripping it feels like you have all the answers and you feel like you have a deeper understanding of life.
Could it ever be on earth as it is in heaven?" part could be him going and questioning people of religion and intellect on how to deal with his situation and eventually overcome this.That is how I view this song.
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The first few lines reflect how I feel before I trip.
We're told how drugs are evil, how they can kill you, etc. when we're younger in an attempt to thwart us from using them. I feel guilty every time I do drugs simply due to being programmed to think that way when I was a child from parents, anti-drug programs, teachers, etc.
During a trip (luckily I haven't had any bad ones) it feels like heaven.
Just my thoughts.
The line “Oh some evil spirit, oh some evil this way comes/They told me how they fear it, now they’re placing it on their tongues” is about phenomena like disaster tourism or rubberneckers on the freeway. It’s interesting to me that we have such a desire to witness out-of-the-ordinary things for ourselves.
We were still all living together in LA when I wrote the song. I remember showing the guys an early demo of it right before we went to the UK for the first time in July of 2009. We jammed on it a few times during that trip and by the time we got home in August we’d decided to hunker down and finish it. Even though our record label already had what they thought was our completed album in their possession, we wanted this new song to make the album. So at the last minute, we went into the studio and recorded it.
"oh some evil spirit oh some evil this way comes"
may be a reference to himself as the one who influenced the person to try it in the first place..
"they told me how they fear it now their placing it on their tongues"
and he is witnessing them try it for the first time despite their fear
"oh to see it with my own eyes"
repeated througout the song .. this is a thought most would think while experiencing acid. there are just no words for some of the things you see, feel, hear, think.
another characteristic of an acid trip is the lack of feeling hungry and wanting to eat food.
and when he describes the man sitting at the fold of the tree trunk after not eating or drinking i think of the Buddha meditating near the nile for months.. he may be trying to express the state of pure peace and meditation he is in while tripping and seeing the earth as a beautiful place
he may feel like earth is heaven while on acid :)
this song is amazing !